In a 2004 Rolling Stone profile of Bill O’Reilly, his former WFAA-TV colleague Byron Harris described the Fox-y one as “particularly dishonest, obnoxious, self-centered.” Really? No idea. Certainly can’t tell from this NSFW Inside Edition clip, making the Interwebs rounds this a.m. And I’ve seen this before — on an…
It’s gonna be hard to find a better headline during the rest of ’08 than this one from Friday: “3 accused of using corpse head to smoke pot.” (Admit it: When you first heard about the story outta humble Humble last week, you thought three things: Doesn’t anyone use Coke…
From the “Jewtopia Infomercial” on JewTube. Plano-based GodTube, founded by Dallas Theological Seminary student Chris Wyatt way back last spring, is old news ’round Unfair Park parts. But every now and then, folks still stumble across the site and treat it like the Second Coming, especially after last week’s news…
White House photo by Shealah Craighead For those so interested, there are a dozen photos from the Jenna Bush-Henry Hager weekend nuptials down the road posted to the White House Web site — including this one, in which the President Bush appears affeared of touching Jenna’s back. –Robert Wilonsky…
For the Stars to keep playing, he needs to stop slashing and start scoring, eh? Good news: Dallas Stars catalyst forward Mike Ribeiro will play in tonight’s Game 3 of the NHL’s Western Conference Finals at 7 p.m. in American Airlines Center. Bad news: Lose tonight and the Stars might…
Like we’re not always being monitored by government satellites anyway, please. Unfair Park contributor Brian Harkin this a.m. contributes to The New York Times a photo of 15-year-old Bryan Adams High School freshman Jaime Pacheco, who gets up every morning and straps on a Global Positioning System monitor. Turns out,…
Eastern Illinois grad Tony Romo, what in the hell were you thinking? Because going to the Chicago Cubs game yesterday was so not a good idea. Unless you liked singing in the key of M and getting booed whilst tossing out the first pitch. In which case, great success. –Robert…
Thanks to Ozzy Osbourne and Mike Ditka, this is not the worst 7th inning stretch in the history of the friendly confines. — Richie Whitt…
A treat for the weekend readers of Unfair Park: the latest video from Los Bros Kadane’s The New Year. Only, yes, it’s for an old New Year song: “The End’s Not Near,” off 2004’s The End is Near — or, ya know, that song for which an episode of The…
Angela Hunt The blog’s acting up this a.m., refusing to post comments to some items. So I thought it best not to let this one linger in the ether: It’s a response from council member Angela Hunt, who has a few words for Friend of Unfair Park Alfredo. Yesterday, in…
Nicke Mitchell Mike Haskins’ photo of the Nervebreakers has found its way to an enormous collection of Dallas music memorabilia. I am posting this at the end of the day because, well, you’ll need to clear your weekend to properly enjoy the mounds of photos, fliers, advertisements, magazine covers and…
Safe as a baby. ‘Till July? Never said it was imminent. Called them “contingency plans” in the headline, in fact. But after reading the comments of Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels and president Nolan Ryan in response to my post yesterday about manager Ron Washington, aren’t we more sure…
Sheffie Kadane When we broke the news Wednesday about Angela Hunt’s memo to Mayor Tom Leppert, she was still in the process of gathering signatures — despite having the five needed to force a council briefing on the Dallas County Appraisal District’s new commercial valuations. She ended up with most…
Because, notes the Friend of Unfair Park who sent this along, we’ve got lots of available land, falling unemployment rates and, dang it, because you’re smart and beautiful. And, look, if Forbes said it, it must be true: Dallas-Fort Worth, we’re officially “Recession-Proof”! –Robert Wilonsky…
Yesterday we took a peek at Entertainment Weekly’s new issue, featuring Oliver Stone’s W — timely too, considering that just down the road tomorrow, George’s lil’ Jenna is gettin’ hitched with din-din courtesy Eddie Deen and the bridesmaids’ gowns by Dallas-born Lela Rose. Well, after we went rollin’ with Brolin,…
Putting down galliant fillies like Eight Belles is only one of horse racing’s serious problems Tomorrow, Lone Star Park holds one of its biggest days of the year, and after a disastrous and embarrassing Kentucky Derby, horse racing could use some good news. Maybe that’s why Lone Star Park is…
Courtesy Uncle Sloppy As Pete points out over on DC9, some of us ’round these parts got a classified-ad missive yesterday from one John Freeman — you know, the Dutch Treat behind the shuttered Sloppyworld. Well, Uncle Sloppy is headed to NYC to work on a rock opera with one…
Luis Yanez Last time we saw Dallas boxer Luis Yanez it was a week before Christmas, and Yanez was hardly in the mood for peace on earth. Instead he was dreaming of wreaking havoc on the Chinese, the Cubans — the entire world. Since then, Yanez has been in Colorado…
Wanna job? Okay, then how ’bout a casket? The new Minor League Baseball team that has hired Pete Incaviglia as manager, will next month give away a free funeral, and is probably considering Star Jones vs. Barbara Wah-Wah in a 7th-inning stretch Octagon wants you to be part of the…
Lotta questions about last night’s bench-clearing brawl between the Rangers and Mariners, after the “gutless” Richie Sexson charged Kason Gabbard for no good reason t’all. But, first and foremost, what the hell’s going on between catcher Gerald Laird and Milton Bradley at the 1:24 mark of this nearly seven-and-a-half minute…
This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who tries get around the city by bicycle, but, yup, Dallas sucks for you. That’s according to the June issue of, d’uh, Bicycling, which ranks the best and worst cities for cyclists. Says the list, which ain’t up yet, Dallas joins…
Matthew Tully Some people have the best gossip sessions under a cape, getting snips, foils and whatever else done to their heads by their stylists. Today, however, we get the dish on two Dallas ‘do-ers from Bravo as the network pimps the second season of Shear Genius (think Top Chef…
